Biography

Heather Engebretson is a Juilliard graduate, an award-winner at the renowned Savonlinna Opera Festival as well as a special-award-winner at the “Hans Gabor Belvedere” singing competition in Vienna. In addition to her first opera achievements in the USA, she sang Schubert’s G Major Mass at the Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium as well as Bach’s Magnificat at the Alice Tully Hall in New York.

In Germany, she joined the soloist ensemble of the Staatsoper Hannover in 2013. By the season of 2014/15, she changed to the Staatstheater Wiesbaden where she is a welcome guest until today and where she performed the roles of Violetta/La Traviata, Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni, Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Oscar/Un ballo in maschera, and Euridice in Orpheus and Eurydike. In the season 2016/17 Heather Engebretson was a member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Hamburg, performing, among other roles, Musetta in La Bohème.

Furthermore, guest engagements include the title role of Katie Mitchell’s production Alcina under the baton of Andrea Marcon at the Bolshoi-Theater and at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Four Women in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Königin der Nacht/Die Zauberflöte at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mimì/La Bohème at Berlin’s Komische Oper, Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro, Sophie in Massenet’s Werther, as well as Waldvogel in Keith Warner’s Ring under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Liù/Turandot at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, as well as Donna Anna/Don Giovanni in Cagliari.

On the concert stage, Engebretson’s most recent guest performances were with the Dresden Philharmonic in Messiah, in Carmina burana with the Dortmund Philharmonic, the soprano part in Mahler’s Symphony no 2 with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and the soprano part in Beethoven’s Symphony no 9 with the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra.

In season 2019/20 Heather Engebretson  returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin performing the Four Women in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as well as to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Sophie/Werther under the baton of Edward Gardner. In addition, she embodied Donna Anna/Don Giovanni at Opera Frankfurt and Beethoven 9th with the Hamburger Symphoniker and with Guillermo García Calvo at the conductor’s stand in Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle.

Engagements of the 2021/22 season included the title role Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly under the musical direction of Antonello Manacorda, Goose-Girl in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Königskinder, both at the Frankfurt Opera; other engagements  included appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Woglinde / Rheingold and  the Four Women in Contes d’Hoffmann as well as at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni.

In the coming 22/23 season she will take on the title roles in Strauss Salome at the Theater Basel and in Oryx and Crake at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden. In Milan she can be heard with Beethoven's Ninth under Thomas Guggeis.

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Antonio Pappano: Insights, Werther at Royal Opera
- Sophie's aria at 58:21

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